Christmas

From social symptom to root causes came about as a bi-product of ZDAY 2013 in London, in which all but the introductory talk featured exterior organisations and speakers. Each of whom seek to address a particular social or environmental issue closely aligned with the movement’s materials.

'The First Christmas' campaign is a global project for The Zeitgeist Movement in an attempt to hijack the consumption festival known as ‘Christmas’ via Facebook, and turn it into what it has so far only claimed to be about: Giving to those less fortunate than you.

Nearly six months ago now, a few friends from the Glasgow city chapter and I were out on the streets in the city centre to do a little culture-jamming in the form of a Yuletide anti-consumerism campaign. As usual, with not much time set aside for planning and gathering resources for anything special, we were doing our standard flyer-distribution and chatting that we had done for the last two years, albeit with a couple ofnew flyers that I designed with the help of some friends.